2023中考英语模拟试卷请考生注意：1请用2B铅笔将选择题答案涂填在答题纸相应位置上，请用05毫米及以上黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将主观题的答案写在答题纸相应的答题区内。写在试题卷、草稿纸上均无效。2答题前，认真阅读答题纸上的注意事项，按规定答题。. 单项选择1、When you visit a foreign country,it is important to know how to ask for help _.AwiselyBlatelyCwidelyDpolitely2、Some people are interested in _womens sense of smell is better developed than _of men.Awhich; thatBwhat; oneCwhich; oneDwhether; that3、The dumplings _ so good that I cant wait to eat them.Me, too.AtasteBfeelCsoundDsmell4、He couldnt _ an answer when I asked him why he was late.Acome overBcatch up withCcome outDcome up with5、Its _ world of wonders , _world where anything can happen .Aa ; theBa ; aCthe ; aD/ ; /6、Jim isnt from a poor family, yet he often comes to school wearing the same clothes every day _ the week.AforBatCofDfrom7、Mr. Lin gave the textbooks to all the students _ the ones who had already taken them.AaboutBexceptCamongDwith8、Youd better _ the workers into two groups to do the work.Adivide Bchange Cmake Dturn9、Many kids in China are crazy about the Western culture. But I still cant understand to us Chinese.Awhat does Christmas meanBwhat Christmas does meanCwhat mean Christmas doesDwhat Christmas means10、Peter fell off his bike this morning, and his knees were hurt _.AquietlyBslowlyCcarefullyDbadly. 完形填空11、 In China, children like to make promises by hooking pinkies(用小手指拉钩)with each other and saying, A pinkie promise must be kept for 100 years. ”Then, they may press their thumbs (按拇指)together to 1 the promise. Sometimes, couples will hook pinkies and promise to be 2 together.How did the pinkie promise come out? Some say it comes from a nursery thyme(童谣). Others say it was introduced from the West-born out of a love 3 where a man and a woman hooked fingers.It is said that it may have something to do with the role of fingers in Chinese 4 . The Chinese character (汉字) for finger also means aim-peoples thoughts. So hooking fingers can be seen as the exchanging of thoughts. Therefore, the fingers 5 an important role in making a promise: they can not only be used to complete a promise, but also be cut 6 making a blood promise. 7 someone swears to heaven (对天发誓), they use their fingers to point to the sky.Generally, hooking fingers means making a 8 promise. In some movies, if a person breaks a promise, he may even have his little finger 9 ! Of course, this kind of thing is not very likely to happen in the 10 world. But we can still see how important pinkie promises can be.1AcompleteBkeepCholdDremember2AeverBstillCalwaysDjust3AlifeBstoryCsignDsecret4AvalueBsocietyCmindDculture5AshowBplayCshareDproduce6AwithoutBthroughCforDby7AAfterBBeforeCUntilDWhen8AseriousBnecessaryCprivateDsuccessful9Acut throughBcut offCcut upDcut down10AopenBwholeCfutureDreal. 语法填空12、Who designed the first helicopter(直升飞机)? Who 1 (draw) one of the most famous pictures in the world? Who knew more about the human body than most 2 (doctor) did? There is an answer 3 all these questions - Leonardo de Vinci.Leonardo lived in Italy around the year 1500, but many of his 4 (invent) seem modern to us today. For example, one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter. Of course, he couldnt build 5 helicopter with the things he had. But scientists say his idea would have worked. Thats why he was considered 6 (be) a genius that has ever been known. But Leonardo wasnt just an inventor. He was one of the 7 (great) artists of his day. When he was only twenty years old, he 8 (call) a master painter, and as he got older he became even more famous. Sometimes he drew a hand in ten different ways 9 he was ready to paint. Many of Leonardos wonderful paintings are still with us today. You may know one of his most famous works- the 10 (smile) woman known as the Mona Lisa. 阅读理解A13、Nobody knows who invented the pencil or when it was invented. A Swiss (瑞士人)described a pencil in a book in 1565. He said it was a piece of wood with lead（铅）inside it . Pencils werent popular, and people continued to write with pens. In 1795,someone started making pencils from graphite(石墨) and they became very popular. Today, people make pencils in the same way. They make the graphite into the shape of a stick, and then they put it inside a piece of wood. One pencil can make a line as long as 55 kilometers. When people first wrote with pens , they had to put the penpoint into ink after every few letters. Later someone invented a fountain pen(自来水笔) and this kind of pen could hold ink inside. A fountain pen can write several pages before you have to fill it again.Two brothers, Ladislao and Georg Biro, invented the ballpoint p